Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Library of Economics and Liberty (econlib.org) is a free online library of economics books and articles. It supplies educational resources for students, teachers, researchers, librarians, and aficionados of economic thought.
EconLib has been online since February 1999. Resources include daily, weekly, and monthly articles, podcasts, and blog items, all by respected contemporary economists. Over 100 classic economics books and essays are also available as digital books. The books are full-text searchable. Reader participation, discussion, and debate about economics are encouraged via the blogs and podcasts. All EconLib resources are available free of charge.
EconLib's most popular resources include the Concise Encylopedia of Economics (CEE), including articles and biographies on hundreds of topics written by renowned economists, from Armen Alchian to Benjamin Zycher. The CEE is the online edition of the 1993 Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.
Also popular is EconLib's definitive Cannan edition of the The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith.
Subsidiaries of Econlib include:
- EconLog, an economics blog ongoing since 2003, with George Mason University economists Arnold Kling and Bryan Caplan.
- EconTalk, podcasts begun in early 2006 with host Russ Roberts.
Topics cover the economics of sports, law and economics, immigration, health care, natural resources, free trade, and more. Comments from readers and listeners are encouraged.
Classic republished books and essays on EconLib focus on the most renowned and respected works, including the most famous works by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, John Bates Clark, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and more. Books by Nobel laureates such as James M. Buchanan that are still under copyright elsewhere are available on EconLib. Complete works by Karl Marx and Friedrich List are definitively available. The writings of early expositors and thinkers in economics, science, and politics, including Jane Marcet and Frédéric Bastiat, are also available.
Most EconLib site resources are oriented toward students and teachers in college, late high school, or early graduate school, with a focus on economics. Links to famous passages from syllabi and library reading rooms are available for classroom, syllabi, and general use. Printable formats are available for non-copyright items.
EconLib is respected worldwide for its academic credentials, objectivity, availability, international focus, and open access. EconLib is provided by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Liberty Fund, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization. EconLib is devoted to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty.
[edit] External links
- Econlib. The Library of Economics and Liberty website.
- EconLog. Economics Blog, Arnold Kling and Bryan Caplan, ed.
- EconTalk. Economics Podcasts, hosted by Russ Roberts
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. David R. Henderson, ed.
- Books. Over 100 definitive works in economic thought.
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. Edwin Cannan, ed.
